The Talk of the Town Weighty by William McKibben. Talk story about a new trivia game that was introduced at a party at the Harley Hotel, at 212 East Forty-second Street, called the Party Quiz Game. The game connects to your computer. It was introduced by Douglas Grunther, who runs a trivia show over a Woodstock, New York...

Annals of Eugenics IV-A SECULAR FAITH by Daniel J. Kevles. ANNALS OF EUGENICS. By the mid-thirties, mainline eugenics had generally been recognized as a farrago of flawed science, and a reform eugenics movement arose, which moved away from the racist and Nazi right. Describes the scientists active in this movement. After the Second World War, the government began to...

The Talk of the Town Crossing in Style by James Stevenson. Illustrated Talk story about a Pequot Library exhibition called "Crossing in Style: Atlantic Liners Between the Wars," in Southport, Connecticut. The exhibit included signs of famous quotes, faded flags, aged pennants, bleached life-preservers, posters, photographs and paintings of such liners as the Mauretania, the Britannic, the Aquitania, the Normandie...

The Current Cinema MOZART AND BIZET by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Cookies by James Lardner. Talk story about a Learning Annex Seminar on the theme of "How to Create An Empire,O featuring David Liederman, the founder and chairman of the board of David's Cookies at the auditorium of Robert F. Wagner Junior High School. According to the Learning Annex Catalogue, the nineteen-eighties "are...

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. Reagan-Bush strategists feel that Mondale's rise in the polls was related to Reagan's response to the bombing of Beirut. He likened the delays in providing more adequate protection for the Embassy to delays in getting a kitchen remodelled&then tried to place the blame for the attack on...

Fiction Love Life by Bobbie Ann Mason. Opal is a retired math teacher who spends most of her time drinking and watching MTV. Her niece Jenny, who is in her thirties, has moved back to Kentucky. Jenny and Opal like each other. Jenny's new boyfriend Randy Newcomb is shown the family quilts. Opal doesn't like them. Randy...

Comment by Daniel Menaker. Writer read an article about entropy, the degradation of all matter and energy into a final state of motionless uniformity, and how the mind of man cannot help endowing such principles with moral and emotional significance; how entropy can be used to furnish grounds for not doing or caring and...

Fiction England Picks a Poet by Ian Frazier. A humor piece about the selection of England's poet laureate. In England, when people discuss poetry they're talking business--big business. At the top of the heap sits the poet laureate of England. So when Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Thatcher announced earlier this year that they were looking for...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

The Theatre BRISK CONQUEST by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Mark Twain, 1909 by Daniel G. Hoffman. his hair an aureole, white/cloud around a face half...

Poetry Wet Are the Boards by John Ashbery. Not liking what life has in it, /"It's probably dead, what...